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For the first time since the HPAI H5N8 outbreaks began in French poultry a month ago, a department outside of the already hard-hit southwest of France, is reporting outbreaks.
Deux-Sèvres, located in the west of France, is reporting two outbreaks; in a backyard flock in Fors, and a larger La Chapelle Baton farm containing 4650 ducks.
Across greater Europe, the latest tally of outbreaks (in poultry & wild birds) now exceeds 720 since the virus first arrived in October.
Avian Influenza: France in the home monitoring
03/01/2017 avian influenza
© Pascal Xicluna / Min.Agri.Fr
In France
Situation at January 3, 2017: 89 H5N8 outbreaks in farms and 5 cases in wildlife confirmed and communicated.
List of homes in the departments
- Landes: 17 homes
- Tarn: 8 homes
- Gers: 45 households
- Lot-et-Garonne: 7 homes
- Hautes-Pyrénées: 5 homes
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques: 3 homes
- Aveyron: 2 homes
- Deux-Sèvres: 2 homes
List of outbreaks in wildlife
- On January 2, an outbreak was confirmed in La Chapelle Baton on a farm in 4650 ducks
- On 31 December, an outbreak was confirmed in Fors in a backyard 21 hens.
- Pas-de-Calais: 1 home
- Haute-Savoie: 2 homes
- Tarn: 1 home
- Channel: 1 home
Internationally
Since the latter situation December 26 on, 57 new outbreaks of HPAI H5N8 subtype were reported in Europe (European Union plus Switzerland):
- in France (23 breeding foci)
- Poland (10 outbreaks in livestock)
- Germany (breeding 6 homes)
- and Hungary (5 households with a wild).
The virus has also been detected recently in Slovakia (in Bratislava galliformes breeding) and Ireland (in Wexford County in a widgeon).
The total number of outbreaks and cases reported continues to increase and is now 724 (compared to 667 last week) including 351 in wild birds (57 species affected), 364 and 9 in farms of captive birds (Tables 1 & 2).
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